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Steven Van Wolputte (Ed.) Borderlands and Frontiers in Africa   Reihe: Afrikanische Studien/African Studies Bd. 40, 208 S., 29.90 EUR, br., ISBN 978-3-643-10219-5 State borders can be visible or invisible, laid down in lines on a map, but also passports and permits or in the many procedures that make up the experience of state. What each border has in common, though, is that it creates a borderland characterized by ambivalence and eclecticism. But borders and borderlands do not only mark the contours of the state. They also divide, in discourse and experience, civilisational traditions, religions, ethnicities. As such they cross-cut the borders between administrative divisions or, as it were, overlay the orthodox political map of Africa. |